Punishment Of A Renegade

 

Punishment of a Renegade (L-276)

وَمَن يَرْتَدِدْ مِنكُمْ عَن دِينِهِۦ فَيَمُتْ وَهُوَ كَافِرٌ فَأُو۟لَٰٓئِكَ حَبِطَتْ أَعْمَٰلُهُمْ فِى ٱلدُّنْيَا وَالآخِرَةِ ۖ وَأُو۟لَٰٓئِكَ أَصْحَٰبُ ٱلنَّارِ ۖ هُمْ فِيهَا خَٰلِدُونَ217d.

217d.  Wa many-yartadid  minkum  ‘an- Diinihii  faya-mut  wa  huwa  kaafirun- fa- ‘ulaaa- ‘ika  habitat ‘a’-maaluhum  fid-dunyaa  wal- ‘Akhirah.  Wa  ‘ulaaa- ‘ika  ‘As-haabun-Naar.  Hum  fiihaa  khaaliduun.

217d.  Whoever among you turns back from his religion, and dies a disbeliever—those are they whose works will come to nothing, in this life, and in the Hereafter. Those are the inmates of the Fire, abiding in it forever.

It was cleared in the above part of the verse: The Infidels and Idolaters will continue trying to turn the Muslims away from Islam by every means. They will threaten and terrify them, offer them different hopes and tempt them. Their entire efforts will be for the purpose that by any possible way, the Muslims must not increase in numbers; they would have to return unto ignorance and darkness of the infidelity.  

It has been warned in this verse that if any Muslim will become a renegade leaving Islam under the influence of Infidels, due to scare or lure, and will die in his disbelief, his entire good deeds will be lost. He will have to suffer its punishment also in the world as well as on the Day of Resurrection too.

Punishment due to being a renegade from Islam will be that his life and wealth will not be protected. His relationship with his Muslim wife will be disconnected.  He cannot get hereditary property of the Muslims. Moreover, if there is a Muslim government then the disloyal, renegade and rebel individual has no right to live in that state.

On the Day of Resurrection, he will be punished rigorously as he will remain deprived of his rewards and compensation. He will not get any retribution of his any worship and good deed. He will be thrown into the Hell, will be burnt there forever and harmed rigorously.  

Fayamut  wa  huwa  kaafirun – (if he dies in his disbelief), God taught from this sentence that if (God forbid) any Muslim becomes a renegade, even then; he has the opportunity to return towards the religion. The punishment of Hereafter is only in that case, if he dies in the folly of Infidelity.

The punishment of the renegade is so much rigorous because he became a renegade after understanding Islam (the Straight Path). Then doubts may rise in the hearts of other people; by observing him. https://youtu.be/Qr3Q45R9spE